This would explain why my
mother needed more and more supplemental oxygen as time went on. As the disease
progressed, the pathogen continued proliferating, occupying more and more of her
lung volume and leaving less and less lung volume for her to use for breathing
thus the supplemental oxygen requirement had gone up and up and up.
Do Medications Actually Slow the Progress of COPD?
This all seemed very logical,
especially since the medical industry had given me their opinion through 2 of
their well-trained doctors which was, “we
don’t know what causes COPD to progress. It’s a mystery.” They would then
follow up with, “We do know these
medications and treatments will slow the progress of COPD.”
This I seriously doubted since
it was the pharmaceutical companies who had spent hundreds of millions of
dollars developing these COPD medications who were then given the task of
testing them to show they worked. Does this seem a little fishy to you because
it sure does to me? Isn’t that like the fox watching the hen house?
Where are All the Alternative Treatments for COPD?
I had been researching COPD
and emphysema since my mother’s diagnosis. There was very little in the way of
alternative treatments for COPD or emphysema. Once I realized that this disease
progression was quite possibly the result of some unknown pathogen proliferating
in the lungs, I began looking in other areas of alternative treatments. I was
looking for research done on other diseases that I thought I might be able to
apply to my mother’s emphysema and COPD.
I eventually found Dr. Kenneth
Hunter, a Microbiologist and Cancer Researcher at the University of Nevada
School of Medicine in Reno. Dr. Hunter was treating cancer by first putting
patients on a very restrictive diet.
This diet was not
calorie-restrictive but “content” restrictive. By that I mean, Dr. Hunter
eliminated all sugar from the diet including fruit, honey, molases and anything
else with a sweet flavor. He also eliminated all grains from the diet like
bread, cereal and pasta since they are converted to sugar quickly in the body. Even
whole grain bread was eliminated because of its high glycemic load. For a quick
understanding of glycemic load take a look at the article below from the
Harvard School of Public Health.
This left only meats, fish and
vegetables. Dr. Hunter stated that cancer was a pathogen and that this
pathogens’ food supply was sugar. He said that each cancer cell had more than
90 receptors for sugar. The diet he developed, essentially starved these cancer
cells.
I started thinking, if cancer
is a pathogen and this diet starves it, and since I was starting to believe the
disease progression of COPD might be the result of a pathogen, then this diet
should also starve this pathogen growing in my mother’s lungs. Well, it made
sense logically but I was skeptical since in my desperate situation, I thought
maybe I was filling in too many blanks with nothing but circumstantial evidence
in an effort to support this pathogen theory.
Realizing that “the proof is
in the pudding,”I immediately started my mother and I on Dr. Hunter’s diet
hoping for some positive results! I figured we had nothing to lose. My mother
was going to die unless I did something other than depend on these drugs and
nebulizer treatments.
COPD Recovery Begins
It took about 10 days before
we had transitioned completely to Dr. Hunter’s diet. The amazing thing for me
was two weeks later when I noticed my mother’s first improvement since her
diagnosis! It was a subtle improvement but it was a giant milestone in my eyes!
My mother would always get up in
the morning after she smelled the coffee I was brewing. By the time she walked
out of her bedroom, across the dining room and into the kitchen she would be
gasping for air while on 4 liters of supplemental oxygen.
This day she was in no
distress when she arrived in the kitchen. I was so thrilled when I saw these
improvements, I can’t even describe the feeling but I was energized realizing
there was a strong possibility that my mother’s COPD progression was, in fact,
the result of a pathogen that had entered her lungs through cigarette smoking.
Maybe the progression of COPD was not this big mystery the doctors thought it
was after all.
No wonder the doctors’
prescription drugs and treatments did not stop the disease progression. They
didn’t know what was causing this disease progression and it didn’t seem like
they had spent much time trying to figure out this big mystery either. Now with
a little bit of thought and logic and a change to a restrictive diet, my mother
was showing her first signs of improvement since her diagnosis two and a half
years earlier!
Complete Recovery from COPD
From then on I noticed small
incremental improvements in my mother’s condition every week! During this
period I added a number of supplements each with its own function in the
healing process.
High quality supplements restored the immune system, amplified the immune response,
stripped away the protective protein covering present on
every pathogen, alkalized the body, reduced inflammation
(one of the two primary symptoms of emphysema), and one of a cycled set of 4
anti-pathogenic supplements designed to systematically kill the weakened
pathogen.
There were other supplements
with less definitive purposes like CoQ10 but all were included for their
specific healing effects.
An example of one of the
supplements I used in reversing my mother’s emphysema was beta glucan which
amplifies the immune response. Here is a good article regarding the effects of
beta glucan on chronic disease.
Seventeen months after
starting the restrictive diet she had completely
recovered! She no longer needed any supplemental oxygen, she had re-gained the
26 pounds she had lost since her diagnosis, she ate full meals and slept
through the night!
Once again, she seemed like
the mom we had lost 15 years earlier when she began taking statin drugs for
cholesterol and other drugs for dementia and osteoporosis. She was now off of
almost all of her medications only leaving Keppra for seizures and a heart
medication which I knew we would have her off of soon.
I did not take her off of her
medications. I put her on the restrictive diet I borrowed from Dr. Hunter and verified through Dr. Fuhrman and Dr. Pescatore, and gave her specific
nutritional supplements which started her return to optimal health.
One by one I added a list of supplements each with their own specific function in either killing this pathogen that I was still not sure even existed, or returning her body to optimal health.
Read the first part of this article by clicking the link below.
"Reversing Emphysema and COPD: The Untold Story"
Or read the continuation of this article by clicking the link below:
Details of the diet I used to begin reversing my mother's emphysema are available in the book, "The New Menu That Began My Mother's Recovery from COPD & Emphysema."
Click the title or book cover below to get your copy today!
The entire story, including the diet and all the details regarding the supplements I used, are contained in the book, "How I Reversed My Mom's Emphysema."
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One by one I added a list of supplements each with their own specific function in either killing this pathogen that I was still not sure even existed, or returning her body to optimal health.
Read the first part of this article by clicking the link below.
"Reversing Emphysema and COPD: The Untold Story"
Or read the continuation of this article by clicking the link below:
Details of the diet I used to begin reversing my mother's emphysema are available in the book, "The New Menu That Began My Mother's Recovery from COPD & Emphysema."
Click the title or book cover below to get your copy today!
The entire story, including the diet and all the details regarding the supplements I used, are contained in the book, "How I Reversed My Mom's Emphysema."
Click the title or book cover below to get your copy today!
“The Overlooked Cause of COPD”
If you would like additional information, please visit our website at:
https://www.emphysema-treatments.com